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ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OP SCIENCE. (BRITISH.) 



John B. Johnson, of St. Louis, Mo., as president, 

 and Albert Kingsbury, of Durham, N. H., as secre- 

 tary. The annual meeting of the Botanical Society 

 of America was held in the Rogers Building on 

 Aug. 19 and 20, when Lucien M. Underwood, of 

 Columbia University, New York city, was chosen 

 president, and George F. Atkinson, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity. Ithaca. N. V.. secretary. The tenth annual 

 meeting "f the Association of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists was held in the Natural History Building on 

 Aug. 19 and 20, with Herbert Osborn. of Ames, 

 Iowa, as president, and Charles L. Marlatt, of 

 Washington city, as secretary. Simultaneously the 

 Society for the 'Promotion o"f Agricultural Science 

 met in Horticultural Hall with Byron I). Hal- 

 stead, of New Brunswick, as president, and Charles 

 S. Plumb, of Lafayette, Ind., as secretary. The 

 American Mathematical Society held its annual 

 meeting in the Rogers Building, on Aug. 19 and 20, 

 with Simon Newcomb as president, and F. N. Cole, 

 of New York city, as secretary. The seventeenth 

 general meeting of the American Chemical Society 

 was held contemporaneously with Section C of the 

 association. Its president is Charles E. Munroe, of 

 Washington city, and its secretary is Albert C. 

 Hale, of Brooklyn. N. Y. Over 200 members were 

 present. The Geological Society of America, of 

 which John J. Stevenson, of New York city, is pres- 

 ident, and Herman L. Fairchild, secretary, met in 

 joint session with Section E on Aug. 23. The first 

 summer meeting of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation was held in Horticultural Hall on Aug. 23 

 and 24. Its president is Francis H. Appleton, of 

 Mo-ton, Mass., and its secretary is George P. Whit- 

 tlesey, of Washington, D. C. The American Folk- 

 lore Society met with Section H on Aug. 23, and 

 the National Geographic Society met with Section 

 E on Aug. 25. The Botanical Club of the associa- 

 tion, of which Daniel T. MacDougal, of Minneapo- 

 lis, Minn., is president, and Arthur B. Seymour, of 

 Cambridge, Mass., is secretary, met at intervals 

 during the meeting, and ten papers were read and 

 discussed before its members. 



Final Sessions. The amendments to the consti- 

 tut ion having gone into effect at this meeting, there 

 were in consequence but two general sessions, 

 namely, the one with which the association began 

 its formal meeting, and the one with which it ter- 

 minated. Nearly all of the routine business was 

 transacted by the council, and the same reported at 

 the final session. Grants of $50 each were made to 

 the Committee on Standards of Measurement for 

 work being carried on by Henry S. Carhart and to 

 the Committee on the Ethnology of the White Race 

 in America for instruments to be constructed by 

 .1. MeKeen Cat tell. Section 11 (anthropology) was 

 authori/ed to hold a winter meeting in December, 

 1898, which will probably be held in Columbia Uni- 

 versity in New York city in connection with the 

 meeting of the American Society of Naturalists and 

 afliliated societies. The customary resolutions of 

 thanks were offered by \V .! MfaGee and addresses 

 in support of the same made by Daniel (i. Brinioii. 

 Horace C. llnvcy. William T. Sedgwick, H. W. Ty- 

 ler, Desire Charney, Benjamin Howard, Edward 

 Kverett Hale, and I'reMdent Putnam. 



In point of members the Boston meeting ranks 

 fourth in the history of the association, but as two 

 of the earlier meetings were in conjunction with 

 the British Association, the present meeting has 

 only been exceeded in registration of members by 

 the Boston meeting of 1880, when 997 members 

 were present as compared with 903 this year. 

 There were 443 papers read before the association, 

 distributed as follow : Section A 39 ; B, 51 ; C, 90 

 D, 20; E, 54; F, 35; G, 56 (Botanical Club, 10); 

 H, 55 ; and I, 33. The meeting was therefore an 



unusually successful one, and had it not been for 

 the excessive heat on the first days of the meeting, 

 a much greater attendance would have been had. 



The treasurer's report showed that during the 

 year the receipts had been $231. the expenditures 

 $100, and that the sum of $5,829 was on deposit in 

 savings banks. There were 273 persons elected to 

 membership, and about fifty members advanced to 

 the grade of fellows. 



The Next Meeting. Pressing invitations were 

 received by the American Association to hold its 

 meeting in 1899 in Philadelphia, Penn., and in 

 Columbus, Ohio, and the council decided that the 

 meeting should be held in the last-named place. 

 The following officers were chosen : President, Ed- 

 ward Orton, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 

 Vice-presidents of sections : A, Alexander MacFar- 

 lane, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. ; B, Elihu 

 Thomson, Thomson-Houston Electric Company, 

 Lynn, Mass. ; C, Frank P. Venable, University of 

 North Carolina, Chape] Hill, N. C. ; D, Storm Bull, 

 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. : E, J. F. 

 Whiteaves, Canadian Geological Survey, Ottawa, 

 Ontario ; F, Simon H. Gage, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. ; G, Charles R. Barnes, University of 

 Chicago, Chicago, 111. ; H, Thomas Wilson, United 

 States National Museum, Washington, D. C. ; I, 

 Marcus Benjamin, United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C. General secretary, Frederick 

 Bedell, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., Secretary 

 of the council, Charles Baskerville, University of 

 North Carolina, Chapel Hill. N. C. Secretaries of 

 the sections: A, John F. Hayford, Washington, 

 D. C. ; B, William Hallock, Columbia University, 

 New York city ; C, Henry A. Weber, Ohio State 

 University, Columbus, Ohio ; D, James M. Porter, 

 Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. ; E, Arthur Hollick, 

 Columbia University, New York city ; F. Frederick 

 W. True, United States National Museum, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; G, William A. Kellerman, Ohio 

 State University, Columbus, Ohio; H, George A. 

 Dorsey, Field Columbian Museum. Chicago, 111. ; 

 and I, Calvin M. Woodward, Washington Univer- 

 sity, St. Louis, Mo. 



British. The sixty-eighth annual meeting of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science was held in Bristol during Sept. 7-17. 

 The officers of the association were : President, Sir 

 William Crookes. Section presidents: A. Mathe- 

 matics and Physics. William E. Ayrton ; B, Chem- 

 ist ry. Francis R. Japp : C, Geology. Wilfrid H. 

 Hudleston ; D, Zoology (and Physiology), Walter 

 F. R. Weldon ; E, Geography, George Earl Church ; 



F, Economic Science and Statistics, James Bonar; 



G, Mechanical Science, Sir John Wolfe- Barry ; H, 

 Anthropology, E. W. Brabrook ; K, Botany, 

 Frederick 0. Bower. General treasurer, Arthur W. 

 Ri'icker. General secretaries, Edward A. Schiifor 

 and William C. Roberts-Austen. Assistant general 

 secretary, G. Griffith, College Road, Harrow. 



General Meeting 1 . The, association began its 

 proceedings with a meeting of the general com- 

 mittee on Sept. 7, presided over by Sir John Evans, 

 when the report of the council was presented by 

 Secretary Scnafcr, and other business attended to. 

 Seven foreign scientists were elected foreign cor- 

 responding members, among whom were Prof. Carl 

 Barus, of Brown University, Providence, R. L; Dr. 

 George W. Hill, of Columbia University. New 

 York city; Prof. Edward W. Morley, of Adelbert 

 College. Cleveland, Ohio; and Prof. William B. 

 Scott, of Princeton University, Princeton. N. J. 

 Various resolutions referred to the council for con- 

 sideration and action were reported, among which 

 was one recommending the appointment of a com- 

 mittee to consider the desirability of approaching 

 the Government with a view to the establishment 



